EXTENSION

In mercantile law. An allowance of additional time for the payment of debts. An agreement between a debtor and his creditors, by which they al-.low him further time tor the payment of' his Uablllties. In patent law. An extension of the life •of a patent for an additional period of Beven years, formerly allowed by law in the United States, upon proof being made that the Inventor had not succeeded In obta:lnlng a reasonable remuneration from his patent right. This is no longer allowed, except as to designs. See Rev.· St. U. S. § 4924 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3396). EXTENSORES, In old English law. Extenders or appraisers. The name of certain officers appointed to appraise and divide or apportion lands. It was their duty to make a survey, schedule, or inventory of the lands, to lay them out under certain heads, and then to ascertain the value of each, as preparatory to the division or partition. Bract. fols. 72b, 75; Britt. c. 71. EXTENT.. In English. practice. A _writ of execution i uing:from the exchequer f. upon a debt due the crown, or upon a debt due a private person, if upon recognizance or statute merchant or staple, by which the sherur ls directed to appraise the debtor's lands, and, instead of selling them, to set G them ofl' to the creditor for a term during which the rental will satisfy the judgment. Hackett v. Amsden, 56 Vt. 201; Nason v. Fowler, 70 N. H. 291, 47 A.tl. 263. In Sco_tch practice, The value or valua- H tlon of lands. Bell. The rents, profits,.and I ues of lands. Skene. -Extent in aid. That kind of extent which i ues at the instance and for the benefit of a debtor to the crown, for the recovery of a debt I due to himself. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1045; 4 Steph. Comm. 47.-Eztent in chief. The principal kind of extent, i uing at the suit <'If the crown, for the recovery of the crown's debt. 4 Steph. Comm. 47. An· adverse proceeding by the king, for the recovery of his own debt. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1045.. J EXTENT A MANERII. (The extent or survey of a manor.) The title of a statute pa ed 4 Edw•. I. St. 1; being a sort of direction for making a survey or terrier of a K manor, and all Its appendages. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 140.. [s. 475]